A 17-year-old boy demanded a woman's purse, pulled a handgun from his hoodie pocket, and pointed it at her and a man in north Springfield in mid-February, police say.

Trevon Hale, who has since turned 18, got out of the passenger side of a pickup truck near the intersection of North Summit Avenue and East Talmage Street shortly before 2 p.m. on Feb. 16 and approached two people walking in the neighborhood, according to court documents.

The incident is described in a probable cause statement, which includes an interview with the two people police say were robbed by Hale.

According to the statement, Hale pulled out a handgun, racked the slide and pointed it toward them, at which point someone inside the pickup honked the horn. That's when Hale ran to the truck with the purse and fled the scene in the pickup, the statement said.

The two people were able to remember most of the license plate number, and the pickup was linked by police that day to a woman who said she had loaned the truck to her nephew, Hale, the statement said.

That night, officers located the pickup truck parked at a Kum 'N Go in north Springfield and the truck was searched with consent from Hale's aunt, according to the statement. Nothing inside the truck appeared to be associated with the earlier incident, the statement said.

One of the two people inside the pickup was taken to the Greene County Jail for an active arrest warrant, the statement said. That man would later tell police he was at work at the time of the incident, though he heard that his brother, Hale, had possibly been involved in a robbery, according to the statement.

The day after the incident, the two people who were allegedly robbed said they could not identify the driver of the truck, but they identified Hale from a photo lineup as the person who pointed the gun at them, the statement said.

Hale was interviewed days later at the Greene County Jail, the statement said, and told investigators did not own a gun, did not have the key for the pickup and was not in the area at the time where the alleged robbery took place. It's unclear from the documents when Hale was taken to the jail.

Hale has been charged with robbery and is being held on a $25,000 bond in the Greene County Jail, court records show.